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February 4, 2021 at 7:44 am #14335806
David Blatner
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The blue highlighting makes me think that the whole paragraph has local formatting on it. You may need to remove local overrides.

Here are a few suggestions:
Do as much cleanup in Word as possible before importing.
Save as DOCX (instead of .doc… or save as .doc instead of .docx)
Here are some additional articles that may help in cleanup:

Import Word Files into InDesign, Remove Local Formatting but Keep Italics and Bold

5 Ways of Removing Overrides Applied to Paragraphs

Strip the Crud from Word Files Before You Map Styles

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